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Outside Plant integrates with NetCracker® Inventory Management and Provisioning Solutions, providing users with updated and accurate information on outside plant assets. It stores all inventory information in one repository; assets can include aerial and underground items as well as connectivity and topology information. Software reveals customer location, specific customer circuits, equipment circuits are riding over, and network status.
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NetCracker Outside Plant Expands OSS Functionality; Fills Void with Comprehensive Information on Inventory, Connectivity and Topology
WALTHAM, MA - March 18, 2003 - NetCracker Technology, a leading provider of OSS and IT infrastructure management solutions, announced today the release of NetCracker Outside Plant. NetCracker Outside Plant seamlessly integrates with NetCracker Inventory Management and Provisioning Solutions and provides customers with updated and accurate information on outside plant assets. "NetCracker Outside Plant fills a significant void in OSS functionality by supplying telecom providers with high-quality information about outside plant assets," said Julie Wingerter, Vice President of Strategy for NetCracker. "Now, field engineers, planning groups and customer facing organizations within a company have additional resources to aid them in delivering faster, highly accurate and cost effective service to their customers."
Outside Plant provides customers with a comprehensive picture of outside plant infrastructure by storing all inventory information in a single repository. Outside plant assets can include devices, tracks, ducts, pipes/bores, cables, coil/over-lengths, manholes, fiber, splices, distribution frames, poles and other aerial and underground items, as well as connectivity and topology information. Using Outside Plant, customers can obtain updated information on their customers and customer location, specific customer circuits, the equipment these circuits are riding over, and the status of the network at any point in time. Additionally, NetCracker provides centralized document management for records and attachments, including engineering sketches, maintenance records, test reports and technical guidelines. Outside Plant provides accurate, complete, real-time data that helps shorten service delivery time, maximize utilization of existing network capacity and equipment, and streamline workforce management, particularly of field technicians.
Telecom providers can maintain an efficient operational environment when Outside Plant is linked with Inventory Management and the broader OSS environment. This results in ready access to consistent and logically linked information about customers, networks, circuits, facility and outside plant assets. The advantage to Netcracker Outside Plant is that it can be successfully deployed as a stand-alone application or as part of the overall NetCracker OSS solution set-seamlessly integrating with NetCracker Inventory and Facility Management Products.
"As tier one service providers scramble to modernize their OSS environments, they are being pressed to manage both physical as well as logical resources to provision service," said Mike Jude, Research Director with Enterprise Management Associates. "Traditional asset management systems have been challenged to provide this capability while at the same time providing a source of data for network design processes. NetCracker has significantly advanced the state of the art by combining real-time asset management with a GIS enabled outside plant management capability. For the first time, outside plant data can now reflect the true state of available assets."
About NetCracker Technology
NetCracker Technology is a leading provider of inventory-based OSS and IT Infrastructure Management solutions for telecommunications service providers and IT intensive enterprises. Built on an architecturally open, 100% web-based J2EE platform, NetCracker's pre-integrated modular solutions manage IT assets and telecom service delivery from start to finish. NetCracker provides customers with an intuitive GUI and the flexibility to implement out of the box or custom tailored solutions. Some of NetCracker's end-to-end OSS modules include Network Inventory Management, Order Management and Resource Provisioning. Asset Management, Asset Purchasing and Lifecycle Financials are just three of the modules included in NetCracker's IT Infrastructure Management Solutions. Founded in 1993, NetCracker Technology is headquartered in Waltham, MA, and can be reached at 781-736-0860 or www.netcracker.com.
NetCracker is a registered trademark of NetCracker Technology Corporation. All other company or product names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies of which they are associated.
